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This is what California is SUPPOSED to look like. California is polluted, crowded, over taxed, over regulated, is chasing longtime residents out while welcoming folks in who may not be a net plus for state coffers. And some folks...
It of course isn’t a “gift” and it isn’t really new either. We refer to China as the Ultimate Crony Capitalist State, because though there are rivals for the title no other country can compare to China on the scale...
“The right to criticize the police without risk of arrest distinguishes a democracy from a police state.” It looks like Louisiana is not doing much to mitigate the stereotype associated with Louisiana cops. There is a reason why New...
The economist Murray Rothbard, a deeply committed (to put it lightly) freemarketeer used to talk about certain groups he opposed, that were wrong headed, clueless economically, socialist statists and so on but that had certain appeal, as “lovable.” Elon Musk...
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(From CNBC) New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week, indicating continued job growth after a slowdown in March. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 232,000 for the week ended April 14, the...
(From Reuters) Former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush, the only woman to see her husband and son both sworn in as president, died on Tuesday, the Bush family said. She was 92. Bush was the wife of the 41st president,...
(From BBC News) A woman who was partially sucked out of a window of a US passenger plane after an engine exploded in mid-air has died. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 made an emergency landing in Philadelphia after a window, wings...
(From Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State nominee and CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a secret visit to North Korea over the Easter weekend and met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to discuss a planned summit with U.S. President...
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That’s pretty tough stuff. It’s enough to rattle even the toughest New York City lawyer. Wasn’t Muller supposed to be investigating Russian collusion though? (From Politico) In a court filing last week, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District...
Seriously, wouldn’t it be great if the Trump/Clinton/FBI/Obama/Comey/Muller saga were on Netflix so we could spend a Sunday afternoon with a few buckets of popcorn and just watch the whole thing and be done with it? It’d be fun, and...
His statement was made online after yet another screed from a “millennial” complaining about how getting a job is hard for millennials. I actually think there is some truth to that, and it’s not fair to indict a whole...
We’ve known for a long time that our own police and surveillance agencies (sigh) have been using “Stingray” technologies to track people they want to track. Now we are concerned that foreign actors are doing it? Shoot, since we heard...
